There has been an increasing momentum for consumer healthcare monitoring and sensing driven by sensors with advanced features and sophistication. The consumer healthcare will lessen the healthcare cost of the patient by reducing the time associated with doctor consultation, visiting doctor and so on. Consumer healthcare sensing plays an important role in delivering reliable psychological and biometric monitoring of patients.

The sensor market in consumer healthcare is expected to reach $47.40billion by the end of 2020 at a CAGR of 5.56%.The sensor market in consumer healthcare application is driven by the rising healthcare costs, aging population, and wide-spread diseases. The growth in the portable and disposable diagnostic equipment, increasing need for greater precision, and reliability are some of the major market drivers for the sensors market in consumer healthcare applications.